Problems & difficulty

Bury your head in the sand

Ignore a problem and hope it will go away.

Examples

  • You can't bury your head in the sand – those bills have to be paid.
  • The government was accused of burying its head in the sand over climate change.

How to use it

Informal. Change the pronoun: bury my/his/its head in the sand.

Where it comes from

From the popular but mistaken belief that ostriches hide their heads in the sand when in danger.